Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:47:22 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries? Message-ID: <20010121144722.V10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101211713320.53569-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>; from matt@LUCIDA.CA on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:29:09PM -0500 References: <200101212212.f0LMCR902132@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101211713320.53569-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:29:09PM -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > ... > : It used to be for the whole whole disk. > > Ahh.. > > : : Also, "e" is "the whole disk within slice 'c'" on a secondary disk? At > : : least that's what mine defaulted to when i installed a second drive... > : > : No. THat's not right. > > According to sysinstall it is: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 254063 29232 219750 12% / > /dev/da0s1e 254063 3001 245981 1% /var > /dev/da0s1f 7085237 2788656 4154877 40% /usr > /dev/da1s1e 17376099 8328598 8699980 49% /misc > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Brand new system, installed 3 days ago, 4.2-RELEASE. Creating the > partition on the newly sliced da1 via sysinstall put it on "e". $ disklabel da1s1 I believe sysinstall(8) starts lettering any non-root partions you add to a disk at 'e.' If you had made two partitions to cut up da1s1, they would have been e and f. I started to look at the code to double-check... but then I came to my senses. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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